Différence des corps, égalité des droits : le sport et la reconnaissance des « races de couleur » (États-Unis, Caraïbes, v. 1850-v. 1950)

This article seeks to study how African Americans countered the discourse on the “natural” superiority of white humanity between the mid-19th and the mid-20th centuries. Since racism toward Africans Americans was legitimated by their blackness, they set up perfectionist strategies of “racial uplift”...

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Main Author: Nicolas Martin-Breteau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2013-05-01
Series:Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/65355